Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,457 6,149 7,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.06% 23.14% 19.48%
As % of the General category 34.58% 36.22% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,376 4,141 5,049
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 111 229
10th Percentile £15.68 £16.41 £13.24
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.93 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.85 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% -6.67%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,453 16,975 21,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.11% 63.88% 57.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,753 10,885 13,596
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.91% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,770 855 1,767
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.46 £15.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -17.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £68.80
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +6.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 7 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,071 £575 -4.17% 2,867
North of England +1 1,296 £500 +7.53% 910
South East 0 725 £500 -4.76% 1,073
North West +4 672 £475 +5.56% 454
Midlands +1 661 £500 +11.11% 513
Yorkshire 0 578 £525 +7.69% 326
West Midlands +1 487 £500 - 275
South West -2 386 £525 -4.55% 393
East of England +4 207 £525 -8.70% 347
East Midlands 0 166 £494 +16.18% 236
North East -22 47 £500 +13.64% 138
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.43%) Confluence
2 213 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 81 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 69 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (0.57%) Apache
6 45 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.33%) SAS
8 27 (0.32%) CMS
9 20 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.17%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.095%) Appian
15 6 (0.071%) Hyperledger
16 5 (0.059%) WebLogic
17 4 (0.047%) WordPress
18 3 (0.035%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 456 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 59 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.059%) Sketch
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.047%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.035%) Notion
10 3 (0.035%) Trello
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 313 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 97 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 83 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 75 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
6 72 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 46 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
8 43 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
9 42 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
10 39 (0.46%) Aladdin
11 37 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
12 33 (0.39%) SAP FI
13 29 (0.34%) Workday HCM
14 25 (0.30%) SAP CO
15 24 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
16 23 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
17 22 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
17 22 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
18 21 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (15.99%) Azure
2 980 (11.59%) AWS
3 575 (6.80%) Power Platform
4 435 (5.14%) GCP
5 289 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 288 (3.41%) SaaS
7 256 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 228 (2.70%) GitHub
9 190 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 179 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 170 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 134 (1.58%) Serverless
13 112 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 101 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 99 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 93 (1.10%) dbt
17 91 (1.08%) OCI
18 89 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
19 87 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
20 83 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 160 (1.89%) Firewall
2 132 (1.56%) Network Security
3 76 (0.90%) VPN
4 75 (0.89%) DNS
5 57 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 52 (0.61%) WAN
7 41 (0.48%) BGP
8 36 (0.43%) SSL
9 34 (0.40%) DHCP
10 33 (0.39%) LAN
11 31 (0.37%) HTTP
12 28 (0.33%) Multicast
12 28 (0.33%) OSPF
13 23 (0.27%) MPLS
14 22 (0.26%) Internet
15 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (0.21%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.21%) VLAN
17 17 (0.20%) VSAN
18 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (5.83%) Power BI
2 245 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 235 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 169 (2.00%) Metadata
5 163 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
6 149 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 128 (1.51%) Tableau
8 121 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 82 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 73 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 65 (0.77%) Big Data
13 59 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 51 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 49 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 47 (0.56%) Power Query
17 44 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 43 (0.51%) Delta Lake
19 39 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 39 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 598 (7.07%) JIRA
2 219 (2.59%) Git
3 161 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.08%) GitLab
5 54 (0.64%) JUnit
6 48 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.52%) Selenium
8 28 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.32%) Postman
10 24 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.27%) ERwin
11 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.25%) Maven
12 21 (0.25%) MLflow
13 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
15 15 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.18%) Gradle
15 15 (0.18%) Hudson
General
1 2,477 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 1,583 (18.72%) Banking
3 1,147 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 483 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 386 (4.56%) Legal
6 338 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 322 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 314 (3.71%) Front Office
9 285 (3.37%) Retail
10 280 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 217 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
12 200 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
13 158 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 156 (1.84%) Local Government
15 150 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 139 (1.64%) Billing
17 136 (1.61%) General Ledger
18 127 (1.50%) Law
19 126 (1.49%) Marketing
20 119 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,235 (14.60%) Analyst
2 928 (10.97%) Senior
3 909 (10.75%) Lead
4 844 (9.98%) Developer
5 800 (9.46%) Architect
6 625 (7.39%) Business Analyst
7 617 (7.30%) Project Manager
8 548 (6.48%) Consultant
9 309 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
10 292 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 214 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 195 (2.31%) Financial Analyst
13 181 (2.14%) Accountant
14 178 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 175 (2.07%) Java Developer
16 168 (1.99%) IT Manager
17 167 (1.97%) Programme Manager
18 165 (1.95%) Software Engineer
19 162 (1.92%) Finance Manager
20 151 (1.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (3.10%) REST
2 257 (3.04%) .NET
3 250 (2.96%) React
4 232 (2.74%) Kafka
5 188 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 184 (2.18%) Middleware
7 157 (1.86%) Spring
8 148 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 120 (1.42%) RESTful
10 110 (1.30%) Redux
11 106 (1.25%) Node.js
12 105 (1.24%) PySpark
13 83 (0.98%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.95%) JSON
15 74 (0.88%) OAuth
16 63 (0.74%) XML
17 60 (0.71%) CSS
18 59 (0.70%) .NET Framework
19 58 (0.69%) Pandas
19 58 (0.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 408 (4.82%) Onboarding
2 369 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 359 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 235 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 204 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 188 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 163 (1.93%) Fixed Income
7 163 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 155 (1.83%) Derivative
9 154 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 148 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 143 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 126 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 119 (1.41%) Equities
14 116 (1.37%) AI Agents
15 110 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 102 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
17 100 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 96 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
19 91 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 296 (3.50%) Windows
2 255 (3.02%) Linux
3 137 (1.62%) Unix
4 64 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.45%) Solaris
6 35 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 33 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.37%) zOS
9 29 (0.34%) Android
10 26 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 18 (0.21%) AIX
12 8 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 8 (0.095%) VMS
13 7 (0.083%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.071%) HPUX
14 6 (0.071%) SUSE
15 5 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.047%) MVS
17 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,847 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,742 (20.60%) Agile
3 1,183 (13.99%) Migration
4 1,104 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 1,004 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 948 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 922 (10.90%) AI
8 916 (10.83%) DevOps
9 894 (10.57%) CI/CD
10 854 (10.10%) Analytics
11 838 (9.91%) ERP
12 789 (9.33%) Decision-Making
13 724 (8.56%) Roadmaps
14 716 (8.47%) Validation
15 701 (8.29%) Project Management
16 699 (8.27%) Data Modelling
17 654 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 624 (7.38%) Change Management
19 616 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
20 549 (6.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,161 (13.73%) SQL
2 1,039 (12.29%) Python
3 572 (6.76%) Java
4 362 (4.28%) C#
5 248 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 241 (2.85%) JavaScript
7 202 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 81 (0.96%) Bash
9 74 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.85%) Go
11 70 (0.83%) C++
11 70 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 58 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 56 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 50 (0.59%) VBA
15 47 (0.56%) Scala
16 38 (0.45%) Bicep
17 33 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 31 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 27 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 675 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 670 (7.92%) Degree
3 481 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 214 (2.53%) PMP
5 200 (2.36%) ACCA
6 187 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 177 (2.09%) CIMA
8 153 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 145 (1.71%) CISSP
10 121 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 100 (1.18%) DV Cleared
12 85 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 81 (0.96%) CISM
14 77 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 64 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 50 (0.59%) AWS Certification
17 46 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
18 39 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 31 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 534 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 367 (4.34%) QA
3 318 (3.76%) PMO
4 283 (3.35%) GDPR
5 154 (1.82%) NIST
6 127 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 109 (1.29%) IFRS
8 100 (1.18%) SLA
9 91 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 90 (1.06%) GRC
11 79 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 62 (0.73%) GAAP
13 59 (0.70%) PCI DSS
14 54 (0.64%) ISO 20022
15 37 (0.44%) NCSC
15 37 (0.44%) Solvency II
16 36 (0.43%) SEPA
17 29 (0.34%) PSD2
18 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 26 (0.31%) COBIT
System Software
1 260 (3.07%) Docker
2 184 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 57 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.31%) vSphere
6 20 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.18%) RACF
9 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.15%) NFS
11 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.071%) GPFS
12 6 (0.071%) KVM
13 5 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.047%) IAG
14 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) GridGain
15 3 (0.035%) SRDF
16 2 (0.024%) ACF2
16 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 383 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 269 (3.18%) Terraform
3 142 (1.68%) Ansible
4 82 (0.97%) Grafana
5 71 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 64 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 51 (0.60%) SCCM
8 44 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.28%) Control-M
10 18 (0.21%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.15%) Argo
13 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
14 11 (0.13%) CASB
14 11 (0.13%) Puppet
15 10 (0.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 1,093 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 696 (8.23%) Oracle
3 655 (7.75%) SAP
4 315 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 261 (3.09%) Databricks
6 210 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 184 (2.18%) Google
8 131 (1.55%) Workday
9 116 (1.37%) VMware
10 112 (1.32%) Splunk
11 107 (1.27%) IBM
12 95 (1.12%) Cisco
13 89 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 60 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 59 (0.70%) Citrix
16 56 (0.66%) Bloomberg
17 55 (0.65%) Sage
18 51 (0.60%) Murex
19 50 (0.59%) Ariba
20 49 (0.58%) Informatica